USDA Announces New Landmark Conservation
Initiatives,
USDA press release 5/1/14. "...According
to the National Fish and Wildlife
Federation, annual U.S. conservation
spending totals $38.8 billion...Through
the 2014 Farm Bill's new
conservation programs, USDA is making
available up to $366 million for
conservation easements under ACEP to
state and local governments, Indian
tribes, non-governmental organizations
and private landowners."

ACTION ALERT
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Giant Land Acquisition Trust Fund /
LWCF/ Land and Water Conservation
Fund, posted to KBC 3/17/12. "It
gives billions of dollars to the Federal
land agencies without having to go
through the appropriations process. That
means there is no oversight. No
accountability. It gives the Park
Service, Forest Service, Fish and
Wildlife Service and BLM and blank check
to take private land. There is no way
these agencies should have a blank check
to convert private land into Federal
government ownership with the deficit at
current levels. The Senate
Transportation Bill is an all out attack
on Rural America."KBC NOTE: In the year
2000, environmental and land acquisition
groups pressured farmers into being
"willing sellers" with the LWCF
fund, to sell out 30,000 acres of
prime farm land, supported by democratic
Congressmen. It did not get funded, and
Tulelake Irrigation District/TID opposed
it. Skip to year 2012. some of
the same Congressmen are supporting the KBRA/Klamath Basin Restoration
Agreement, and the year-2000 willing
sellers are now "leaders" in the KWUA
and TID.
The KBRA likewise downsizes agriculture,
gives control to government agencies and
environmental groups, and has no
guarantee of water for farms. "Water
Certainty" means, in the spring you will
be informed if and how much water you
might get to irrigate your crops.

Connecting
Conservation Easements to The Wildlands Project, by Julie Smithson,
posted to KBC 6/20/04. Considering the vast amount of land taken out of
agricultural production in the Klamath Basin in recent years, and the
amount of land targeted to be 'conserved' by eager conservation groups,
this article contains many facts and links explaining the agenda behind
the easements.

Conservation Easements (CEs) and Purchased Development Rights (PDRs),
by Marcia Armstrong 3/28/04 (printed with permission of Marcia
Armstrong.) "In my opinion, the worst thing about CEs and PDRs is
that they reach into the future and restrict the range of available land
use options available to our children and grandchildren. They rob the
potential for future owners to get the highest possible economic return
from their property."